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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-minimum-standards-of-safety-communications-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards of Safety Communications) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-minimum-standards-of-safety-communications-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement those provisions in Council Directive 94/58/EC on the minimum level of training for seafarers which require means for safe communication among the crew, between the crew and shore based authorities, and between the crew and passengers on passenger ships and hovercraft in emergency situations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/529/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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